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Marketers Will Pay Naira for Dangote Fuel -IPMAN

Aliko Dangote Refined petroleum products from the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery are to be sold in naira and not in the United States dollar as speculated in some quarters, oil marketers clarified on Monday. Dealers in the downstream oil sector also stated that the registration process for marketers at the refinery was still ongoing, as many operators had continued to register with the plant. It was further gathered that officials of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority were meeting with the management of the refinery to perfect the pricing template for products produced by the facility. On January 12, 2023, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery announced the commencement of production of Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, and JetA1 or aviation fuel. The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had in a statement issued by the firm, said, “We have started the production of diesel and aviation fuel, and the products will be in the market within this mon...

Coronavirus; US records over 1200 deaths in the last 24 hours


According to data from states and local health agencies and hospitals in the United States at least 1,237 new coronavirus deaths and 67,167 new cases were were reported in the United States on July 30. Over the past week, there have been an average of 64,632 cases per day, a decrease of 1 per cent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Friday afternoon, more than 4,533,900 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 153,000 have died, according to a New York Times database.

Average daily cases per 100,000 people in the past week
Case numbers are surging throughout most of the United States, including in many states that were among the first to reopen. Because the number of people hospitalized and the percentage of people testing positive is also rising in many of those places, the case spike cannot be solely explained by increased testing. Still, coronavirus deaths remain well below their peak levels. And as some places reimpose restrictions, others continue to reopen their economies.

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